well, I did manage to get through the post, and this is obviously someone deeply offended, so I made myself get through it. Then I went on to read antirez's and

well, I did manage to get through the post, and this is obviously someone deeply offended, so I made myself get through it. Then I went on to read antirez's and comments. Here's my thoughts. According to one of antirez's comment responses: "the root of the problem is equal dignity of individuals". and the only way to change this is by "(showing) our children that we don't have any sexual bias, they'll observe us, and will act accordingly (even in this case talking will help marginally if they can't see we act well)". And generally if you read his article you get the overal impression (at least I did) that he is against protection of minorites when the language is formulated in specific terms (ie. such and such policy for women, or for irish men or whatever). He advocates always formulating the language in general terms such as "Why is A not payed like B even if they have similar responsibilities and tasks." and going from there. As pointed out by author at prettylittlemachine, many of his formulations are not well put, for example, when antirez writes "Talking with my female coworkers I discovered they were deeply upset and offended by other women that were too easy to ask for respect using sexism as a flag." she responds by saying "Ah, right. The problem is actually THE WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE!!!" Again she quotes antirez saying "Similarly, I will not care who you are if you do something silly at work. Nothing is more offensive for you than me being too easy with you because you are part of some minority. ", and responds by saying "Here again, the theme that women are going to get off too easily when they fuck up in the workplace because they are women." in summary, for me I'll have to think about this subject a little while to formulate a solid opinion on it, but initially, I tend to agree with what I think is antirez's view that the idea we should espouse is mutual respect and equal rights for all individuals. There's no need to add adjectives or specify types of individuals men,women, caucasians, etc, I think if we have that mindset our children will have it too and maybe the issues will fall away, they are cultural after all. EDIT: here's antirez's twitter where he clarifies and you can see others reactions as well: https://twitter.com/antirez https://twitter.com/antirez